Ira Basil Pauly (born November 15, 1930) is an American

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who was an All American college football player at

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, and is known for his influential work on

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High school, college, and medical school

Pauly attended grammar school in

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, and then

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. He then earned his undergraduate degree with honors from

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, in 1954, where he belonged to the fraternity

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(TEP). There he was a standout

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for the

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and

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player. He won the Bruins' 1952 most improved player trophy and 1953 Spirit and Scholarship Award and was named a First Team

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n in 1953. in 1953. That season, UCLA won the

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and played in the Rose Bowl,Davis C (June 3, 2004)
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''The Jewish Journal''. during which he started both ways, as

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and

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.Pauly IB (Feb. 23, 2012). As to his mother's reaction to him playing football, he said: "My mother wasn’t that crazy about it, though she never forbade me. In those days, the Jewish son was supposed to be a doctor, not a football player." He was selected as the 1953 Los Angeles Jewish Collegiate Athlete of the Year by

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. In 2004, Pauly was inducted into the

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.Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (2004
Dr. Ira Pauly
"Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame". He graduated from

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in 1958, and did his internship there.

Medical career

In the 1960s, while on the faculty at

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, Pauly began writing and speaking about treatment of transsexualism. He became supportive of sex reassignment surgery in 1961 "after soul-searching deliberation."Meyerowitz JJ (2002). ''How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States''. Harvard University Press Pauly noted that both transsexualism and

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were "sex and tabooed topics" that elicited strong responses. Pauly is credited for undertaking the first global review of the published outcome data on transsexualism in 1965.Bockting WO, Coleman E (1993). ''Gender Dysphoria: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Clinical Management.'' Haworth Press Also in the mid-1960s, he began collaborating with endocrinologist

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, who cited Pauly's work in ''The Transsexual Phenomenon''.Benjamin H (1966) ''The Transsexual Phenomenon''. Julian Press; Reprint Warner 1977 The two later worked to popularize their research in the lay press.Benjamin H, Pauly IB. (1969). The maturing science of sex reassignment. '' Saturday Review'' 52: 72–78. In 1975, Pauly and

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medical student Thomas W. Lindgren introduced the Body Image Scale, with which subjects rate feelings about 30 body parts from 1 (very satisfied) to 5 (very dissatisfied).Francoeur RT, Baker D, Koch PB, Weis DL (1998). ''Sexuality in America: understanding our sexual values and behavior.'' Continuum International Publishing Group. His 1981 follow-up report on outcome data was later published with independent reviews by Bengt Lundström and Jan Wålinder in 1984. Pauly served as president of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, now known as the

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, from 1985 to 1987. Pauly left Oregon for an appointment as professor and chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,

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School of Medicine in Reno, Nev. Under his leadership, the Department of Psychiatry developed a fully accredited residency.Pugh RG (2003). ''The Cutting Edge: Reflections and Memories by Doctors on Medical Advances in Reno.'' University of Nevada Press He retired from the medical school in 1994. Pauly also served on the American Psychiatric Association's Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders. Bradley SJ, Blanchard R, Coates SW, Green R, Levine SB, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL, Pauly IB, Zucker KJ (1991). Interim report of the DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders. ''

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'' Volume 20, Number 4 / August, 1991 He continued to practice clinically until 2010.

Family

He married Ann Flanagan in 1960. He has four sons, Brett, Quinn, Devin and Tye, and seven grandchildren.

Selected publications

*Pauly IB (1965). Male psychosexual inversion: Transsexualism: A review of 100 cases. ''Arch Gen Psychiatry.'' 1965 Aug;13:172-81. *Pauly IB (1968). The current status of the change of sex operation. ''J Nerv Ment Dis,'' Nov;147(5):460-71. *Pauly IB (1974). Female transsexualism: Part I. ''

'' 3: 487-507 *Pauly IB (1974). Female Transsexualism: Part II. ''

'' 3 (6): 509-26. *Lindgren TW, Pauly IB (1975). A body image scale for evaluating transsexuals. ''

'' Nov; 4(6): 639-56 *Pauly IB (1981). Outcome of sex reassignment surgery for transsexuals. ''Aust. NZ. Jn. of Psychiatry'', 15(1), 45-51. *Lundström B, Pauly IB, Wålinder J (1984). Outcome of sex reassignment surgery. ''Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica'', 70, 289-94. *Pauly IB, MT Edgerton (1986). The gender identity movement: A growing surgical-psychiatric liaison. ''

'' Aug;15(4):315-29. *Bradley SJ, Blanchard R, Coates SW, Green R, Levine SB, Meyer-Bahlburg HFL, Pauly IB, Zucker KJ (1991). Interim report of the DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders. ''

'' Volume 20, Number 4 / August, 1991 *Pauly IB (1993). Terminology and classification of gender identity disorders. In Walter O. Bockting, Eli Coleman, eds. ''Gender Dysphoria: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Clinical Management''. Haworth Press

References

External links

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